Jenny Jump State Forest, Hope (Warren County)

Jenny Jump State Forest is located is northern Warren County on the 1,112 foot high, 6 miles long Jenny Jump Mountain ridge. It has extensive hiking trails on the mountainside, featuring large glacial boulders.

 

Arthur Kill Vertical Lift Bridge, Elizabeth (Union County)

The Arthur Kill Vertical Lift Bridge is a rail vertical-lift bridge connecting Elizabeth port and Howland Hook Marine Terminal on Staten Island. It contains a single track that is used mainly to carry garbage out of New York City, as well as to transport freight to destinations in west Staten Island. It has the longest lift span of any vertical-lift bridge in the world. It case easily be seen while driving on the New Jersey Turnpike, or crossing the Goethals Bridge.

 

Richard W. DeKorte Park, Lyndhurst (Bergen County)

The Hackensack Meadowlands are part of Mesozoic Lowland area between the Watchungs and the Palisades. Very differed from the rugged Watchungs to their west, they feature a small network of trails that offer the opportunity to explore a wetland teeming with wildlife. The 640-acre Richard W. DeKorte Park features landscaped capped landfill and trails that take visitors out into wildlife observation areas and bird blinds

 

Cornelius Low House, Piscataway (Middlesex County)

The Cornelius Low House is a Georgian manor in Piscataway. It was built in 1741 and is listed on the New Jersey Register of Historic Places. Cornelius Low, Jr. was a New York merchant and later became even more successful in Newark. He moved to the emerging port community of Raritan Landing, near New Brunswick. He became one of the community's most prosperous businessmen. After losing his home in a great flood in 1738, he obtained property for a new house on the bluff overlooking the Landing. Low called the new home the "new house on the mountain". Cornelius Low died in early 1777 but the British spared his house because his loyalty to the King of England remained steadfast until his death.

 

Buttermilk Falls, Walkpack Township (Sussex County)

The tallest waterfall in New Jersey at 85 feet, Buttermilk Falls is located within the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area. Down a dirt road, the falls are pretty easily accessible by foot or car, depending on the time of the year, with a parking lot directly across the from the falls. There are step leading to the top of the falls (over 140 steps).